On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dario Giovannetti <[email protected]>wrote:
> This discussion was started in > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide#Change_titles.3F_Official_vs_Beginners.27_Guide_.28formerly_.22Merge_with_Beginners.27_Guide.3F.22.29 > > What do you think of merging the Beginners' Guide and the Official Arch > Linux Install Guide into a unified Installation Guide? > In my opinion having 2 separate installation guides on the wiki only > creates confusion for beginners who wonder why they are directed to an > "unofficial" guide, and is of no help for experienced users. > This gets reinforced by the fact that the Official Guide is rarely > maintained, and almost if not all of its content is already duplicated in > the Beginners' Guide. > Also, wiki users tend to report bugs in the Official Guide in its talk > page, instead of posting to the releng team. > I would then link the guide in git from the new unified article. > > In alternative to all this, I'd propose to change the titles of the two > guides to something like "Installation Tutorial" (or Guide) in place of the > Beginners', and "Quick installation reference" (or Guide, or Notes) in place > of the Official. > > Dario > > +1 from me, people who don't qualify as "beginners" (to linux) will just skip over extra information in the guide, and people who are will benefit from the simplification.
